Autor segons l'article: Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez; Ángel Galán-Martína; Laurence Stamford; Adisa Azapagic
Departament: Enginyeria Química
Autor/s de la URV: GUILLEN GOSALBEZ, GONZALO; Ángel Galán-Martína; Laurence Stamford; Adisa Azapagic
Paraules clau: Enhanced data envelopment analysis Sustainable development DEA (data envelopment analysis)
Resum: Quantifying the level of sustainability attained by a system is a challenging task due to the need to consider a wide range of economic, environmental and social aspects simultaneously. This work explores the application of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the sustainability ‘efficiency’ of a system. We propose an enhanced DEA methodology that uses the concept of ‘order of efficiency’ to compare and rank alternatives according to the extent to which they adhere to sustainability principles. The capabilities of the proposed approach are illustrated through a sustainability assessment of different technologies for electricity generation in United Kingdom. In addition to screening the alternatives based on sustainability principles, enhanced DEA provides improvement targets for the least sustainable alternatives that, if achieved, would make them more sustainable. The enhanced DEA shows clearly the ultimate distance to sustainability, helping industry and policy makers to improve the efficiency of technologies, products and policies.
Grup de recerca: Sustainable Computer Aided Process Engineering
Àrees temàtiques: Enginyeria química Ingeniería química Chemical engineering
Accès a la llicència d'ús: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 0098-1354
Identificador de l'autor: n/a; n/a; 0000-0002-0973-7338; 0000-0003-2380-918X
Data d'alta del registre: 2016-09-13
Pàgina final: 200
Volum de revista: 90
Versió de l'article dipositat: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Enllaç font original: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098135416301181?via%3Dihub
URL Document de llicència: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
DOI de l'article: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2016.04.022
Entitat: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Any de publicació de la revista: 2016
Pàgina inicial: 188
Tipus de publicació: Article Artículo Article
Repositori URV